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About the Role

Jobs With Justice San Francisco (JWJSF) is seeking an Executive Director (ED) to guide the organization’s campaigns and operations, strengthening coalition power and building worker, labor, and community-led movements for economic and social justice in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall fundraising strategy, including foundation and grassroots
• Lead foundation fundraising, including prospecting, funder relationships, and grant management
• Cultivate philanthropic partnerships and serve as a thought leader with the funding community
• Oversee grassroots fundraising, including member dues, annual gala, sustaining donors, etc.
• Manage relationships with coalition members, including check-ins and conflict resolution
• Plan and lead coalition meetings, events, and member engagement
• Attend member actions and speak as appropriate
• Maintain strong relationships with external partners/allies
• Coordinate policy positions with members and the Legislative Committee
• Build shared agenda and strategy across the coalition with E-board and Leadership Team
• Coordinate long- and short-term strategies, including campaign planning and responsive decision-making
• Ensure member participation in strategy, tactics, and campaign evaluation
• Represent JWJSF in media and movement spaces
• Support staff with campaign implementation
• Ensure effective systems for HR policies, performance evaluations and compliance
• Monitor JWJSF’s finances, including budgeting, resource allocation, and internal controls
• Support a healthy and inclusive culture in collaboration with the Staff Culture committee
• Collaborate with Leadership Team on HR, finance, and culture initiatives
• Provide supervision to 3–5 staff, fostering strong communication, coordination, and leadership development
• Oversee governance of E-board and Steering Committee, ensuring regular meetings and effective engagement
• Coordinate with Executive and Finance Committees on fiduciary duties and compliance
• Ensure timely elections and adherence to bylaws, legal, regulatory, and CBA requirements

Requirements

• 8+ years leading labor and/or community organizing efforts, ideally in a coalition setting
• 2+ years in nonprofit leadership
• Proven experience with foundation fundraising
• Strong ability to grow and maintain coalitions, uniting ally leadership around a common agenda
• Exceptional relationship-building skills and ability to handle conflict between individuals and organizations
• Strong leadership to coach, motivate, delegate, foster accountability and build positive team culture
• Resourceful in prioritizing and investing in people/systems while driving towards clarity and solutions
• Advanced organizing skills: strategic/political analysis, campaign development, power mapping, and navigating complex political landscapes
• Demonstrated commitment to addressing racial, gender, and class oppression in organizational practice
• Personal integrity, credibility, confidentiality, and dedication to mission
• Emotionally intelligent, self-reflective, aware of positionality and power; able to give and receive feedback
• Strong verbal and written communication, effective online and in person
• Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time
• Ability to communicate via phone/text and email/video conferencing
• Occasionally lift and carry up to 25 pounds (accommodations available if needed)
• Must be able to travel weekly within the SF Bay Area, regularly statewide and occasionally nationwide

Skills

• Visionary leadership
• Strategic leadership
• Coalition building
• Organizational resilience
• Nonprofit management
• Fundraising
• Strategy development
• Organizing/coalition work
• Base building
• High social and emotional intelligence
• Navigating change
• Inspiring others
• Conflict resolution
• Relationship building
• Coaching
• Motivation
• Delegation
• Accountability
• Team culture development
• Strategic/political analysis
• Campaign development
• Power mapping
• Verbal communication
• Written communication

Location

• San Francisco
• Oakland

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Occasional travel

Experience Level

• 8+ years of combined experience in nonprofit management, fundraising and strategy development, organizing/coalition work
• 2+ years in nonprofit leadership

Salary/Compensations

• $120,000–$145,000 annually

Benefits

• Paid vacation that starts with 3 weeks for new employees and increases thereafter
• Additional paid leave during a scheduled 2 week winter break
• 401(k) contributions rising from 3% to 12% of salary, no employee match required
• 100% employer-paid premiums for high quality family healthcare, vision and dental coverage through our union health and welfare fund

About the Company

• Jobs with Justice San Francisco (JWJSF) is a long term, multi-racial alliance of labor unions, worker centers and community groups supporting workers’ rights and fighting for economic, racial and gender justice.
• Our member groups represent service workers, domestic workers, healthcare workers, educators, city workers, seniors, people with disabilities, tenants, students and more.
• Our coalition connects people—workers, Black and Brown people, immigrants, queer and gender-oppressed folks—to build collective power and win real systems change.
• We believe as Audre Lorde said, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
• Working people need good jobs with dignity and a voice at work, quality and equitable public education, affordable housing and a liveable climate.
• We see economic, racial and gender justice as intersecting and necessary to each other.
• Our current programs focus on workers rights and climate justice.

Equal Opportunity

• JWJSF is an equal opportunity employer.
• We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind and provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, caste, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• We honor both the letter and spirit of these protections.
• We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the communities we serve, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.